PREGNANT MUM-OF-EIGHT ON NURSERY PORN CHARGE

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PREGNANT MUM-OF-EIGHT ON NURSERY PORN CHARGE

Tuesday October 13 2009 byPadraic FlanaganA PREGNANT mother of eight has been charged with child abuse , but not domestic violence,by police investigating the Little Ted’s paedophile ring, it emerged last night.

The arrest of Tracy Lyons, 39, who is expecting her ninth child in two months, comes after Plymouth nursery worker Vanessa George was convicted of abusing children in her care.

Lyons, of Portsmouth, has appeared before magistrates in the city charged with sexual abuse of a child, taking an indecent image of a child, and distributing indecent images of a child.

She was arrested following information from Greater Manchester Police who were involved in investigating George and two others also found guilty of 37 abuse offenses.

Lyons was remanded in custody and did not enter a plea.

Her arrest came as tapes of 39-year-old George’s police interviews were released in which she admitted her crimes were “disgusting” and “vile” but refused to name her victims.

In the interviews she claims Colin Blanchard, 39, of Rochdale, urged her to take indecent images of children after they met on the social network site Facebook and she agreed in a bid to keep his attention.

The couple will be sentenced next month with Angela Allen, 39, of Nottingham.

The trio had never met in person before admitting the offences at Bristol Crown Court on October 1 but exchanged thousands of email and text messages containing sickening images of child abuse. Mother-of-two George eventually admitted 13 charges, including sexual abuse of children, and making and distributing indecent images of children.

But she has refused to reveal the identities of those she abused at Little Ted’s nursery, Plymouth, despite a judge telling her to make clear to tormented parents which children were victims.

Her police interviews, obtained by a local television station, reveal her claiming to have told Blanchard to “put a ring on my finger” in exchange for supplying him with images of abuse.

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George admits photographing her victims in the toilets, out of view of colleagues, and choosing younger children because they were easier targets. “I knew it was wrong when I was doing it. It’s vile,” she told officers. “I’m fuming with myself, really… it’s absolutely disgusting,” she says.

She initially claims that she cannot remember whose photograph she took on her “fun phone”, and says she “wasn’t doing it for enjoyment”.

But when pressed during later interviews, she refuses to co-operate, even when officers produce photographs of her abusing the children.

One pleads with her: “Help the families who are out there now, stressed, worried, concerned for their children… please help us and tell us who you took pictures of. Vanessa, please. For them… as a mother you’d want to know. Don’t you care?” With shocking callousness, pervert George simply replies: “No comment.”

Det Insp Costas Nassaris, who led the investigation into George’s actions for Devon and Cornwall Police, said it was questionable how much she regretted her actions.

“She clearly knows that what she did was wrong and there was some of that expressed,” he added.

But the detective said she was “still trying to manipulate the situation to some degree” by working out “what she could get away with and deny”.

Blanchard admitted 19 counts of sexual assault and distributing indecent images of children. Allen, of Nottingham, admitted five counts of the same charges.